Bacterial plasmid partition machinery: A minimalist approach to survival

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 72-79

  Schumacher, Maria A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; BACTERIAL PLASMID PARTITION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CENTROMERE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PLASMID SEGREGATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA; CENTROMERE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84857031277     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2011.11.001     Document Type: Review

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